Florida State University Law Review Volume 17 | Issue 2 Article 3 Winter 1990 Article XII, Section 10: Formerly of the Florida Constitution William R. Woods Follow this and additional works at: http://ir.law.fsu.edu/lr Part of the Constitutional Law Commons, and the State and Local Government Law Commons Recommended Citation William R. Woods, Article XII, Section 10: Formerly of the Florida Constitution, 17 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 353 (2017) . http://ir.law.fsu.edu/lr/vol17/iss2/3 This Comment is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Florida State University Law Review by an authorized editor of Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. COMMENTS ARTICLE XII, SECTION 10: FORMERLY OF THE FLORIDA CONSTITUTION WILLIAM R. WOODS* T HE CONSTITUTIONAL Revision Commission of 1966-1968 rec- ommended drastic changes to the Florida Constitution. Acting on this recommendation, the Florida Legislature adopted three joint reso- lutions proposing revisions to the electorate. The voters of Florida ac- cepted those recommendations when they ratified the revised constitution on November 5, 1968.' The resolutions embodying the re- visions approached the problem of making the transition to the new constitution in different ways. One joint resolution 2 proposed a new article VIII, relating to local government, which expressly provided: "This article shall replace all of Article VIII of the Constitution of 1885, as amended, except those sections expressly retained and made a part of this article by refer- ence." 3 The second joint resolution4 proposed a revised article V!, re- lating to suffrage and elections, but contained no provision regarding its 1885 equivalent.' Article V, relating to the judiciary, was carried forward in its entirety from the 1885 constitution, as amended.6 The third joint resolution 7 recommended revision of the remaining articles of the constitution.